PS3 Firmware Update (v3.01) now available

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Hi everyone, PS3 system software update 3.01 is now available for download. This is an optional update that improves system stability during use of some PlayStation 3 format software.

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  • Where are the new Premium Avatars?

  • @45 you probably update your PS3 with the wrong firmware, goto your countries PS3 site and download it and re-install it.

    if you have a euro PS3 you need a Euro firmware.

  • Sony needs to get sued by customers associations worldwide if it keeps charging for repairing consoles that die due to updates that customers are forced to install and aren’t properly tested for delivery.
    Really, this is getting crazy.
    We customers paid a lot of money for our PS3s and owners of the “fat” ones like me paid even more than new slim owners.
    There should be no major bugs locking,freezing and turning fully functioning consoles into defective or dead products in any new firmware that Sony releases.
    But major issues are getting out of control now since 3.00 firmware release, that simply means that Sony managers must act quickly and fire employees that can’t do their job properly, product quality is falling down like never before.. if the PS2 ever had so many defects then Sony would have gone bankrupt many years ago.
    This is getting silly.

  • The most awful and stupid thing for Sony is to charge customers for their own faults. You guys there at Sony must listen to your own customers unless you want your group to go bankrupt.
    Do you have any understanding of what you are really doing? You are killing, completely destroying the image that Sony built thru the years, and you are killing the Playstation3 as a product that was considered to be the best available one compared to competitors offers. But if you keep killing customers products and then asking them for money to repair your own mess then you only deserve to get fired because that is just insane, do you want to destroy Sony SCEA forever or what?

    Do you care for your customers? Do you care for Sony as a group?
    Because so far it really doesn’t seem so.

  • The most awful and stupid thing for Sony is to charge customers for their own faults. You guys there at Sony must listen to your own customers unless you want your group to go bankrupt.
    Do you have any understanding of what you are really doing? You are killing, completely destroying the image that Sony built thru the years, and you are killing the Playstation3 as a product that was considered to be the best available one compared to competitors offers. But if you keep killing customers products and then asking them for money to repair your own mess then you only deserve to get fired because that is just insane, do you want to destroy Sony SCEA forever or what?

    Do you care for your customers? Do you care for Sony as a group?
    Because so far it really doesn’t seem so.
    You keep charging customers for fixing your bugs.

  • The most awful and stupid thing for Sony is to charge customers for their own faults. You guys there at Sony must listen to your own customers unless you want your group to go bankrupt.
    Do you have any understanding of what you are really doing? You are killing, completely destroying the image that Sony built thru the years, and you are killing the Playstation3 as a product that was considered to be the best available one compared to competitors offers. But if you keep killing customers products and then asking them for money to repair your own mess then you only deserve to get fired because that is just insane, do you want to destroy Sony SCEA forever or what?

  • The most awful thing for Sony is to charge customers for their own faults. You guys there at Sony must listen to your own customers unless you want your group to go bankrupt.
    Do you have any understanding of what you are really doing? You are killing, completely destroying the image that Sony built thru the years, and you are killing the Playstation3 as a product that was considered to be the best available one compared to competitors offers. But if you keep killing customers products and then asking them for money to repair your own mess then you only deserve to get fired because that is just insane, do you want to destroy Sony SCEA forever or what?

    Do you care for your customers? Do you care for Sony as a group?
    Because so far it really doesn’t seem so.

  • On the topic of YLOD, I got it on my 40gig about 3 weeks ago. 2 years of about 4 – 5 hours a day (whole family uses it). It’s real. But hey, this hobby costs money, and the competition has it even worse. Current gen consoles are simply running too hot and I don’t think there is a work around yet. My new PS3 slim still gets really hot. It’s just the nature of the beast folks.

  • You keep charging customers for fixing your bugs.
    You keep not adding features requested by customers and you add silly childish and useless marketing driven things that most customers just hate–and that’s bad marketing at work.
    You didn’t even enable the HD audio bitstream on HDMI for all your main “fat” PS3 customers base just to force everyone buying the new cheaper built PS3 slim claiming that the old one wasn’t HDMI 1.3 compliant which is a pathetic lie.

    Come on, what the heck are you doing?

  • Come on, what the heck are you doing?
    Get your act together and get back to delivering quality and stop destroying the very good image that Sony had.
    You really did a mess so far. Many managers and many employees should get fired to reorganize Sony as a group.

    You can censor my messages if you wish but that will happen soon or later, when a strong big Company/Corporation division keeps doing big mistakes and upsets its customers then sooner than later there will be a brutal re-organization and many will get fired. It happend to larger groups than yours like Intel (Prescott,Tejas sloppy work anyone?) .. don’t think that it can’t and it won’t happen there at Sony as well…

  • @zerowing_us

    you have the option of finding a new hobby, or buying a new gaming platform. 360’s die too, a lot more than PS3’s. If Sony had to please every little pud-smack out there they would be bankrupt by now.

    Like I said, this is how it is, and things aren’t changing anytime soon. The gaming business has ballooned to epic proportions in a relatively short period of time. These are the growing pains. This hobby costs money. Good day.

  • All this complaining, sheesh!!! Sony is doing the best they can to make the PS3 better, and trying to fix the bugs and all. So everyone can stop complaining. At least they’re doing something.

    Good Work Sony Team! =]

  • @superstewie

    I updated it on the North America Version, everythings here when I go to avatars the choose it says premium avatars I click it it says you can purchase them off the psn store.

  • Best update ever thanks! No problems with my 40 GB model or my brother’s (non-PS2 BC) 80 GB model. We were playing games and Blu-rays as always…

  • i found out what the bug the people with drive issue is! it’s because they used the American firmware on their European/Asian PS3…

    can be fixed by running the local firmware from your countries PS3 site.
    http://nl.playstation.com/
    http://uk.playstation.com/
    http://de.playstation.com/
    etc
    etc

  • @359 it’s a hardware limitation, there is no way around it.

  • @zerowing_us

    Lol @ your countless ignorant rant

  • unlike Microsoft sony actually has a blog…
    i have two ps3’s and they all work perfectly fine.

    here a funny video 3 ps3’s.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh1jB4hVJRg

  • @zerowing_us

    People like you shouldn’t be allowed to use the internet!

  • wow zerowing_us.
    how much did Microsoft pay you? you are one gigantic board spammer!

  • I have a launch model 60GB PS3 with a 500GB/5400rpm samsung HDD and have not had a problem with v3.00 or v3.01.

  • I am reading the last posts and have to smile.
    I as previously wrote, all of my games are now freezing ever since the day after I downloaded the patch. 3.01 did not fix it. Imagine spending $500 on a ps3, work fine for a year and a half, a firm ware update comes out and renders your system useless, and then have customer service tell you that you can wait it out and hopefully the next patch will fix it, or spend another $150 to fix it.

    For all the users that have had no problems, I am jealous. I wish I could play my games (just got Batman). But don’t bash the users who are sincerely frustrated at the situation. My only gripe so far is that the customer service told me that since my 80g BC PS3 is over a year old, its my responsibility to fix their problem with the last patch.

  • Please change the grey Friend boxes. they are too big and distracting :\

  • @374 patience.
    who waits will win.

  • @373 allot of people aren’t sincere ;)
    they just talk crap because they don’t have a life or a PS3.

  • Nice quick update Sony…why was this update optional?

  • -Pal / NTSC Support?
    -More sorting options?
    -Static Icon creation?
    -Longer comment text?
    -Password protect everything (installed games, videos, music etc.)?
    -Cross game chat?
    -Personal in-game music capabilities?
    -Better browser?
    -Friend name adjustment (who’s who assistance would be cool)?
    -Improved iPod support?
    -Etc. etc. etc. etc.

    None of those in this update?

    Could probably go on forever about he things that should have been added a long time ago.

    Hmmm…I guess sparkles and game stability will have to do. Another 4-5 updates, and perhaps we’ll get a improved Hanna Montana voice changer…

  • I can’t believe there’s so many whinners here. Little changes to something and it’s just like everybody’s back to first grade… “Mommy, why did I get juice today instead of milk? I wanted milk!”

    Seriously though I think 3.00 was a great update. If 3.01 helps to clear up minor actual issues that came about with 3.00 that’s not a bad thing at all. I’ve updated three different systems also and experienced no issues at all with any of them. One’s a 120 GB slim, another’s a 40 GB fat, then the last is an 80 GB fat, no BC. Great update Sony and I hop to see more great things coming in the future, hopefully things that go hand in hand with 3.00. :)

  • im really getting sick and effing tired of hearing and reading all of you peoples retarded comments on the xmb… why dont u stfu for once… and recognize some REAL peoples problems… like the peoples who systems got the yellow light… or the peoples systems who stopped reading discs at all with 3.xx firmware updates… quit effing b!tching about the retarded xmb… and everyone b!tching about the friends list… the boxes may be ugly… but have you not even given thought to all the free space that is in the boxes… think outside the box… im sure sony has a plan with all that free space… quit complaining about the xmb when your system reads discs and plays games perfectly fine because whether u wanna admit it or not… your one of the lucky few … dont show your d!ckheadedness by complaining about some new stuff. you dont pay for any of these updates… and you dont pay to use the online servers… grow up!

  • i can’t open the psn store and since the fw 3.00 my games don’t work.

  • Was just wondering if anyone else was having this problem but now that i have the new 3.01 update my Account Management wont open. It just keeps sayin error 80710D23. And i just got my MAGE Beta invite and cant even enter my code now. Happen to anyone else???

  • I Cant get into my acct manager either. What is error 80710D23??? I cant play my games for than 10 minutes at a time, I cant browse PSN without constantly getting kicked out and now I cant check my own account? WTF? Someone throw me a bone! Now I cant even get into PSN. Forsake the rest, i just want to play games!

  • What about my ps3 freezing on fat princess and madden 2010? Fix?

  • With so many users complaining, no way i’m gonna download the new firmware. Rollback to 2.80 now sony!

  • #378 just shut everyone up. I am sure that sony is far more concerned about the recently crippled systems than you girls whining about the xmb’s new visuals. get a life.

  • not sure if this helps anyone but after the 3.0/3.01 update this afternoon, I lost the ability to see anything other than a black screen. I would reboot, and nothing would change. I assumed the worst, and was preparing to make a call to support and shell out cash. I just so happened to flip the TV over to watch the news, and got a wierd HDMI fault error from my Tivo. With both units on the tv acting funny, I had to wonder. I turned off the tv, PS3 and bounced the Tivo, and brought them up in reverse order, and low and behold everything works. Apparently my TV a 10 month old Vizio stopped sending a HDMI key out. I seem to be working now. Hope it helps!!!

  • I downloaded 3.0 and I couldn’t access the Playstation Store, or go to account settings. I downloaded the optional 3.1 update and everything is back to normal. Thanks guys. I knew I didn’t buy a 360 for a reason.

  • i updated this morning and bought mortal combat vs dc in the afternoon.
    i go to play it and error 80010514; game won’t play.
    i’m disappointed sony

  • On a side note, everybody whining about the gray boxes and fonts and sparkles- get a f*king life, really. Or get an Xbox and experience the RROD 3 or 4 times a year like all of my friends do. You do not pay to play online or download any of these updates. The video game industry is growing at an amazing rate- last year alone brought in over 12.6 million dollars. That’s more than the movie industry. We are gonna experience growing pains during this time. Just hang on and enjoy the ride.

  • I have an 80 GB (BC w/serial ending in E01) I purchased last year. I had the freezing trouble on Batman AA and Midnight club and was too frustrated to try others. The upddate is downloading now. I hope it fixes the problems! The only reason this update was released so fast was to attempt to fix the real problems.

    I don’t give a flying F about the fonts or ads or anything else so long as the PS3 I paid $500 bucks for a year and a half ago works!!

    Leave your comments for the future updates section if that is your interest. Leave these for those who have had systems die!

  • yea cause i cant sign into psn like i used to!!!!!

  • There’s a big lesson to be learned out of all of this. DO NOT UPDATE UNTIL THE RELEASE IS VERIFIED STABLE. With all the error codes and drives not reading games Sony has got a big problem on their hands. If they’re making people pay for repairs from the update this has got class action lawsuit written all over it. Microsoft had to pay it and if Sony thinks they’re going to rip people off and get away with it they’re sadly mistaken. Just with this update I bet failure rates went up by 10% or more. Just a matter of time before we see the PS3 failing as much as the 360 if not more.

  • Does this update also fix the freezing issue in NBA Live 09?

  • New Kotaku news story hits the nail on the head. No need for ambiguity in these sort of announcements..

  • We want UNCHARTED 2 bundle w/ PS3!

  • @ L2K-Lashiec in post 378

    Thank you for saying what I’m sure most people are actually thinking. I’m sick and tired of this garbage too.

    Just how many whiny children are posting in this Blog and on the forums. Quit bitching about a few cosmetic changes to the XMB and leave the comments section free for people with more important and legitimate problems. Sony might actually listen to those if they didn’t have to wade through all the pointless, childish comments about the XMB.

  • EPIC LOLZ at the people who think their batman game is freezing.

  • Haven’t been gaming too much since 3.0 but noticed a few irregular occurances such as game freezes. Updated to 3.01 today and noticed some odd graphical glitches that were previously not present while playing Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion. A bit disappointed about this as Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion was working fine for me before 3.0 and now I’m wondering how my other games are going to hold up to the test. Kinda wish I hadn’t updated at all. D: I have the 80GB PS3.

  • Seems like 3.01 Firmware did indeed fix Uncharted, Thank you Sony. After downloading new firmware I played Uncharted and it didn’t freeze on me. Cant wait for Uncharted 2!

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